vast-ansible

Requirements

Ansible https://github.com/ansible/ansible Yaml Editor such as VS Code https://code.visualstudio.com/

Hosts

Edit Hosts in the ./hosts file following the [virtual_clusters] example, Delete if not applicable

Host Vars

Create a new .yml file under the host_vars dir with the same name of your newly added host in the hosts file. e.g. example-cluster

Follow the examples given in example-cluster.yml

Secrets

Encrypted variables such as passwords or api tokens can be kept in the secrets.yml

Editing File: ansible-vault edit secrets.yml

Default passphrase: vastdata

Run All Roles in Initial Playbook for a specific host

ansible-playbook -i hosts initial.yml --ask-vault-pass --limit example

Run Specific Role in Initial Playbook for a specific host

ansible-playbook -i hosts initial.yml --ask-vault-pass --limit example --tags setup-protectionpolicies

WIP Roles

Native Replication Failover